Fruit-picker&#39;s bucket.



No. 376,038. PATENTED JAN. '7, 1908.

E. BRYAN & W. B. TAYLOR.

RUIT PIGKERS BUCKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.13.1907.

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UNITE? ERUIT-PICKER BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Extent. :itsnted .l'nn.

fioplinatiou lllrzri March 1&1907. Serial No. BLlQhTLlfil.

Bucket, of which the following: is u spovi'limition.

Our object is, first to provide :1 bucket for apples, cherries, bQU'LES; and all kinds of fruit that can be l'rm'olully pickod and placed 1 in the bucket while it is sus oinlod in 'l'i'ont ol' 2; person and tho hands to gather the fruit from trees and bushes: second to provide means for :idjushihlv and detsiohuhly' (onnoctin ho lnn-kvt with :1 per-- son as required to ho suspended and (-ui'rivd in frontoi the person: third. topiyovido :nnuns to prevent tho l'ruit 'l'i'oin lit-ingtouvllod by :i person and handled and bruised in i'lunoviugz the fruit l'i'oui the. lonskl t into Wlilt'll. 1: has heen plznzod by tho picker.

Our invention Consists in the consti'uvlion, ui'mng'oment and Combination of ports as hereinafter sot forth, 'pointod out in our claims and illustrated in the zuzt-ouuinnylug drawings, in which:----

Figure 1 u perspective ":iou' tha sin-M's to he suspended on a person as rol' uiroil for pi-zu-tilrul use. Fig. '2 is an enlarged bottom View of tho bucket and shows a spring latch for lustvniug the bottom of the bucket when it is hinged to the bucket at its roar M re. Fig. 3 is 41, vertical central sectional viow that shows the hinged bottom in {Lil upon position and u flexible lining fixed in the top portion of the bucket and extended down and below the bucket some distance to serve as a. means for emptying l'ruit from the bucket into :U'lOtilBl' receptacle without touching and bi'uisingi the fruit Fig. 4 is u vertical central sm'itioliill view that shows L mmlilied form oi hu kot provided with :1 llxod hotoln and n hingml bail at its top and zipottuies to mhuit the. hooks of the adjustable suspend. shouhh straps shown in Fig l.

The numeral 10 designates tho imckct Ina-tile of suitable shoot nu-tul. it is trams versoly oblong in shape. and its inn-3i sidu ourvos inwards to contact with tho pnrson who curries it and its outside is (1H'YlT-4l out At its u idlest portion it about sixteen inohvs li'om 0nd lo and and at its transverse (router about ton iuchos'ivido and it m th from top to hot- Ol the poi'son :n'o trot v cuii'ii-d thoi'vin without living psoss-c-il and bruised by lhlii Wt-[gilt upon mn'h olhoi'.

A l)l Ll'Ull\ l2 vonloi'iuinp in sh po ilh lho lower 0nd ol tho luu'lu l is hing-d in tho i11 \vui'dly vur'c -d vdp'o and has :l s l3 ilxnd in its undox' sido to v alnvico l-l, fi'xod to flu oulsidrof tin,- in. as shown i.. l igs. l, 2 and :is ltll liili'fti lo! I'WEfiili'illg the hingod bottom Hosmil.

A loop 15 is iixvd to l'h-s hoiloni our. the puiallvl ends oi" llu spring vlzisp l3 shown in Fig 2.

Apoilui'vs ii} are gn'ovidod in ill( top ol" tho rom and inwardly (curved part ol' tho huskot ill to admit hooks i? on tin; ouds ol zullustublv suspmnloi' straps in no insortod as iuquisvd lo oonuolrl Li o slltllhilili with tho huckoi'v 'lhv l-nds h susp udoi' straps hmllixod loops or iii silos l), by which thoy (:uu ho lon .l und .-.hoi'ivn '=d n it (:onnnou way to mliust ti diil'mvnt sine. 'lllo slmps :u'osR mu l other at umtop.-; and u 'o lo-p? 1U;)f *lln*1 h a loop '20 lixml m our: ol" tin-n. 21nd undo? whioh tho othor s ix'ip 1111M slid? as roipiii'od to ollow tho ii /(flying p {lions oi tlnstraps to adjust ihonisolvos I'LliilVf iv.- l'nuh Milli? and tho hawk and suonldois oi lhv p r'son upon whioh lhoy an"? plzurnd and worn.

A lloxiblv liuins: 21, of \wwou i ninic or light h-mthm is fix-d in tlw top ol' the: portion ho huskoi. to dopmnl through ho lower ol' tho bin-hot us slnnvn in Fifg. I; in such it nmnnoa: that it Wiil siu'vo as on :n'liustablo or yioldi funnel adapted to vouvoy l'ruit lioin tlin buclcot whnn its bottom is open,

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to persons of into mlo'thm' i'oooitzi-olo without lollohin handling and bruisizng; the fruit. Mid when lho sol't limihlo linin j; is dou'oiwl up into tho huulc i. and he hingod hotiosn illlfi li llH lining will s ai it lnhion for \ho i'i'uit llnd pi ko}! :tnd upped into the hu-okot.

in the piziotit use tho shouldoi' straps Mo PlZLCJLl over a poisoi'is nook and should; and thv what-i ill) secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. A fruit piokers bucket, having an open of use, What We claim as new and desire to top, a bottom hinged to its lower edge,

spring clasp on the under side of the bottom 5 and a catch device on the outside of the lower end of the bucket to engage the spring alas a flexible lining fixed in its top to extend down through the bottom and means to suspend-the bucket from a persons neck and sluruldcrs in they manner shown and described.

2. A fruit pickers bucket comprising an open-topped receptacle having a hinged b0ttom, means to retain the hinged bottom closed, a flexible lining fixed on the inside of the upper end of the receptacle and longer than the receptacle and adjustable suspenders detachably connected with the top edge I of the receptacle, to operate'in the manner I stated.

ERNEST E. BRYAN; WARREN E. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

O. C. HAWKINS. L. B. HAWKINS. 

